Thanks to Feng Xiaoqi's help, the trip to Qianshui Village to look at houses and land went very smoothly. After Old Zhang and his four sons came back from the inspection, they held a family meeting directly.
"We have checked out the situation in Qianshui Village. The land is good. Among the fifty acres of land, only ten acres of medium-sized land are separate. The other forty acres are connected. Dachuan has taken a fancy to the ten acres of medium-sized land. He has decided to buy it. I have no objection!"
Old Zhang spoke first.
"Dachuan is our son-in-law, but he also has to set up a household. His family of four can take care of the ten acres of land, and we can help each other during the autumn harvest."
"I always listen to Dad."
Song Dachuan spoke out at the right time.
"When we sell these lands, we sell them together with the crops. I've seen that the wheat is growing well. After we buy these lands, we will be busy with the autumn harvest, so that we will have enough food for the whole year.
The house was also ready. Mr. Liu left in a hurry, so he sold it to us along with the furniture in the house. We just had to move in with our people and belongings.
After the autumn harvest is over, we will hold a housewarming party and invite the village chief of Qianshui Village and some respected people to be our guests, so that it will be convenient for our family to move around the village in the future."
After hearing this, the Zhang family was very happy. Several sisters-in-law were talking in low voices. They said that the two courtyards were more than enough for them to live in, and the couple could even have a separate room, which was unthinkable before.
"If everyone has no objection, we will go and pay the money and go through the formalities tomorrow."
Naturally, everyone had no objection.
Song Dachuan said:
"Dad, Hui Niang and I have discussed it. We will temporarily stay in your yard before the autumn harvest. When the autumn harvest is over, we will prepare to build our own house."
"Have you planned everything? Do you have the money?"
"Everything has been planned. We have enough money. We saved some before, and with the unexpected gains along the way, it will be enough."
"Okay, you are the boss, just have a plan in mind."
The day after the family meeting, all members of the Zhang family went directly to Qianshui Village, where they exchanged silver with Mr. Liu, who was as fat as Maitreya Buddha. Then they took the Liu family's carriage back to Huangfeng City, transferred the house deeds and land deeds to old man Zhang's name, and officially settled down in Qianshui Village.
Old man Zhang also registered the land deeds and house deeds in red, paid the taxes, and returned to Qianshui Village with his registered household registration.
The family had already been allocated a house and put all the things they had carried along the way into the new house. The Zhang family's move-in also attracted the attention of the people in Qianshui Village.
This village does not have a unified surname or the same clan, but is a village of mixed surnames. This is why Old Zhang was finally willing to pay more money to settle down here.
As new members of the village, they will not be excluded. Although everyone is unfamiliar with them at first, with their family's character, they will definitely be recognized by the indigenous people of Qianshui Village.
Ten days later, the Zhang family joined the autumn harvest team. Before, Mr. Liu hired temporary workers to harvest the land. Now that the Zhang family has bought the land, they could not finish the harvest in a short time with just a few strong laborers. So, for the temporary workers who came to the door, Old Man Zhang decided to hire temporary workers to harvest the land himself.
"The autumn harvest cannot wait. If we wait until it rains, the crops in the fields will be ruined. Although we are not starving during this journey, the food we eat is not very oily, and our bodies have not recovered yet.
If you work too hard, you will inevitably develop a disease. You may not feel it now because you are young, but you will experience it deeply when your children reach my age.
So this year we hired people to do the autumn harvest. We pay them a penny a day. Those who do a good and efficient job can come back tomorrow. Those who are sneaky and take advantage of us because we are new here are not allowed to come, and we will not hire them again in the future.
We don’t cause trouble, but we can’t be afraid of it either. If we can’t stand firm this time, people from Qianshui Village will come and step on us in the future, and we won’t be able to live like this.”
After hearing this, Lianyi silently gave a thumbs up to Old Zhang in her heart. Otherwise, why do they say that old people become more cunning.
After the general tone was set, the Zhang family focused their attention on the autumn harvest. The Zhang family had four strong laborers, and the young boys could also help, and with the addition of temporary workers, no one dared to cause any trouble.
On the contrary, it was at Song Dachuan's house, because Song Dachuan was the only strong laborer, Hui Niang and Lian Yi were both women, and Hu Zi was only a tiny child, so some people with evil intentions came to work as odd jobs and help harvest wheat in the hope of making some money.
After Lianyi finished harvesting a bunch of wheat, she saw that the men who came to work there had only harvested less than half of the wheat, and were not even as good as her, a woman. She said nothing, but went over and broke the bones of the four men, then threw them at the edge of the field, so that everyone in Qianshui Village could come and see that there were actually scoundrels who wanted to make money by lying on their field.
The four grown men seemed to be paralyzed. They lay on the ground, unable to move even a finger, and started crying. Unfortunately, no one paid any attention to them. After all, as fellow villagers, how could they not know what these people were thinking? They all despised them and called them shameful and said they had hit a wall.
"Stop howling here. Do you think our family is small and easy to bully? Why don't you ask Feng Xiaoqi? I also deserve half of the credit for killing the Hu people!"
Afterwards, Lianyi no longer cared about these people. He left them on the field to be gazed at again and again by the villagers passing by, and to have straw and stones thrown at them by the children playing in the field. They were then left exposed to the sun for a whole day. When the sun went down, Lianyi reconnected the bones of these people, and after each of them threw a copper coin, he let the four people go.
After these four people were able to move again, they didn't even dare to take a penny. They crawled back home and lay at home for three days before they felt no more pain in their bodies. However, afterwards, all the bones in their bodies were easily dislocated and as fragile as a piece of paper.
After Lianyi showed her skill, no one dared to come to their fields to make money anymore. Those who came to work part-time were all people from poor families but hardworking. These people could get wages every day, and they knew that the Song Dachuan family was reasonable, so they worked harder and harvested the grain from the ten acres of land early.
After the autumn harvest, the Zhang family held a housewarming party and invited the village chief and respected elders of Qianshui Village, as well as several eloquent, well-mannered and senior women. It was a lively party, which also informed the people of Qianshui Village that they had officially settled down.
Next comes the winter and the New Year. Today, because they have just arrived in Qianshui Village, Song Dachuan's plan to build a house has been postponed to after the spring plowing is completed next year. By then, everyone will have finished their work in the fields and there will be enough labor, so the house can be built before the autumn harvest, and the family can move into the new house when winter comes.
This was something that Song Dachuan's family had been looking forward to for a long time. Lianyi drew the blueprint of the house herself, not seeking novelty or uniqueness, but focusing on practicality.
Then she hardly went out during the whole winter, just to heal the scars on her face. (End of this chapter)
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